City Council - Regular Meeting

Welcome to the Waterloo City Council meeting for Monday, July 6th. Madam Clerk, roll call, please.

Mr. Schmidt.

Here.

Mr. Morrow.

Here.

Ms. Creighton-Smith. Ms. Berry. Present. Mr. Salamanca.

Here.

Mr. Martin and Mr. Simon. Here.

It should be noted that Mr. Martin and Ms. Creighton-Smith will not be present here tonight. At this time, I'd like to recognize a moment of silence, prayer, or reflection. Thank you. Our Pledge of Allegiance tonight is by Ward 2 Councilmember Dave Morrow.

Please join me in the Pledge of Allegiance.

Mr. Mayor.

Mr. Simon.

I would like to make a motion to approve the agenda as amended with number 22 and 26 being considered separately, as well as a motion to approve the minutes of June 15, 2026, council regular session as proposed. Second.

Got a motion and a second. That was 22 and 26 of the consent agenda.

Correct. Thank you.

All in favor? Aye. Opposed? Same sign. Motion carried.

Mr. Mayor? Mr. Simon. I would like to make a motion to approve the consent or to approve the additional of the bill payments in the amounts of June 22nd in the amount of $2,900,890.41, the June 29th payment of $4,517,184.70, and Monday, July 6th in the amount of $6,554,807.67. Second. Motion to second.

Roll call vote, please.

Mr. Schmidt?

Yes.

Mr. Morrow?

Yes.

Ms. Berry? Yes. Mr. Salamanca?

Yes.

And Mr. Simon?

Yes. Mr. Morrow, you asked for 22 and 26 to be pulled off. Would you please read number 22, please?

Yes, number 22, resolution approving experienced Waterloo Board recommendation for funding fiscal year 2027, quarters one, two, hotel and motel tax grants.

I guess I would like to- We have to need a second. Second. Oh, sorry. We have a motion and a second. Mr. Mauro, do you have questions?

Yes, I guess I would like to have someone from experience water to explain to me what you know that this how they're coming up with the money and where they were there how their decision process is to pick what they've ordered where they have.

Well is there someone from experience water in the audience.

I guess you're not getting that question okay, so given that I would like to table this. I would like to take a motion to table this second.

We have a motion to second. Any discussion on tabling number 22?

Question.

Go ahead, Mr. Simon.

Would that just come up in two weeks at the next meeting? Is that enough time to get some experience?

As long as I can get some explanation, sure. It can be just on next. Very good. Thank you.

Okay. We have a motion to table. Roll call vote, please.

Mr. Schmidt? Yes. Mr. Morrow? Yes. Ms. Berry? Yes. Mr. Salamanca? Yes. And Mr. Simon?

Yes. All right. Mr. Morrow, number 26, please.

Number 26, resolution approving completion of project and recommendation of acceptance of work for work performed by Baker Enterprises, Inc. of Waverly, Iowa in the amount of $3,484,186.47 in conjunction with fiscal year 25, W.A.R.P. Fourth Edition Contract 1114, receive and file a two-year maintenance bond. And I guess my question. Second. So, sorry.

Motion and second. Sorry. Okay, sir, do you have a question?

I guess I would, if I could get some, I have an explanation of what the $3.4 million is going to get.

That would be Mr. Knudson. Thank you, sir.

Jamie Kutzen, City Engineer, the $3.4 million got you new roads, sewer, sanitary sewer, storm sewer, lot grading, electrical, and gas out at our Warp Industrial Park.

Okay, so was this another one that a lot of stuff, attachments didn't show? Because it just showed the explanation, and then what was the bond type?

Yeah, generally there was going to be This one for the recommendation of work is just the two-year maintenance bond. We're just asking council to approve accepting the work. It's now become, will become public and then the two-year maintenance bond. That's what was in there was just the two-year maintenance bond.

Okay. All right. Thank you.

Thank you. Any other questions?

Mr. Mayor?

Yes, sir.

Not quite sure if we changed our mode of operation, but in the past, we would have a motion to approve the agenda, and then we would have a motion to approve the consent agenda, which we did not do tonight.

I believe Mr. Simon did make a motion to approve the consent agenda as well as the bill payments. But he combined them.

I did combine them. That's not the way we've done it in the past. Yeah, I needed to approve the agenda.

I have two items on the consent agenda I'd like to take off.

Items number 37 and 38. And we can, where are we at with that, ma'am?

We've already approved the consent agenda.

Okay, so I missed that opportunity. I'll remember that.

Or you could contact the clerk's office ahead of time.

I'd like to know which rules we're going to operate by. We did him 1 way 2 weeks ago, I attempted to take something off the consent agenda. You told me it wasn't time to do that yet because we were voting on the regular agenda. So, which way is it? That's all I want to know. Okay.

Well, we'll get it straightened out for you. I'm not coming down to the office for that conversation and I appreciate that too. Yeah. Thank you roll call vote on number 26 please.

Mr. Schmidt?

Yes.

Mr. Morrow?

Yes.

Ms. Berry? Yes. Mr. Salamanca? Yes. And Mr. Simon? Yes.

Perfect. Tonight we had the appointment of hiring Morgan Jacobs from the Civil Service List for Wastewater Operator and Jabril Bailey from Civil Service List as an Engineering Technician in the Engineering Department. Are either of those two here tonight? Well, we thank you for your... We're working for the City of Waterloo in your interest and for your employment, future employment with the city. I'm going to ask the people standing to take a seat. There are plenty of seats just all around here. Please take a seat. All right. Let's move on to public hearings. Mr. Mayor. Mr. Simon. Mr. Schmidt.

Item number one is a motion to receive and file proof of publication of notice of public hearing, and that's for the Asbestos Abatement Services Contract AB-2026-05-01P for 54 Lane Street. Second.

A motion to second for the public hearing all in favor. I post same sign. Mr carried now is the time for the public to speak to this item and the best disabatement service contract for 54 lane street, which is the all stat and laying this building. Does anyone from the audience, which is speak for or against this.

Mr. Mayor, I make a motion to close the hearing and receive and file any oral or written comments. Second. We have a motion and a second.

All in favor? Aye. Opposed?

Motion carried. Mr. Mayor, adopt a resolution confirming approval of specifications, bid contract, form of contract, et cetera, and authorizing to proceed. Second.

Does council have any questions on this? Seeing none, roll call, please.

Mr. Schmidt? Yes. Mr. Morrow? Yes. Ms. Berry? Yes. Mr. Salamanca? Yes. Mr. Simon?

Yes.

Mr. Marin, I make a motion to receive file and instruct the city clerk to read the bids.

Second.

We have a motion and a second. All in favor? Aye. Opposed? Madam Clerk?

All right, our estimate for this project is three hundred and thirty four thousand dollars. Our first bidder was services of Des Moines, Iowa. They provided five percent security and their bid amount was three hundred eighty six thousand seven hundred sixty seven dollars. Our second and final bidder was advanced environmental of Waterloo, Iowa. They provided five percent security and their bid amount was two hundred seventy four thousand dollars.

Mr. Mayor, I would like to adopt a resolution approving the award of bid to Advanced Environmental Inc. of Waterloo, Iowa in the amount of $274,000, approving the contract bonds and certificate of insurance in conjunction with the Asbestos Abatement Services Contract AB-2026-05-01P for 54 Lane Street, and authorizing the mayor and city clerk to execute said documents.

Second.

Motion to second. Roll call vote, please.

Mr. Schmidt. Yes. Mr. Morrow. Yes. Ms. Berry. Yes. Mr. Salamanca. Yes. And Mr. Simon.

Yes. Assembly take number two, please.

Mr. Mayor. Mr. Morrow.

Mr. Mayor.

Um, request and rest motion to receive and file proof of publication of notice of public hearing request to approve the final selection of route and authorizing to acquire or condemn necessary property for the right away permanent easements and temporary easements related to the drive Huntington road reconstruction generally located East and South of 1350 drive extending to the West city limit line.

Second. Motion to second. All in favor? Aye. Opposed? Same sign. The hearing is now open. Anyone from the public wish to speak for or against item number two on the public hearings? Seeing none.

Mr. Mayor? Yes. Motion to close hearing and receive and file oral and written comments.

Second. Motion to second. All in favor? Aye. Opposed?

Mr. Mayor right relate resolution to approve certain actions and with respect to the cost capacity road huntington road reconstruction project to establish the amount of just compensation for certain property interest to be acquired for project purposes and to authorize the use of condemnation procedures for acquisition of said property interest in furtherance of the projected objectives second most of second council questions on this.

Seeing none, roll call vote, please.

Mr. Schmidt? Yes. Mr. Mauro? Yes. Ms. Berry? Yes. Mr. Salamanca? Yes. And Mr. Simon?

Yes.

Would someone take resolutions one, two, and three, please?

Mr. Mayor?

Mr. Simon?

I'd like to approve the resolution. I make a motion to approve the resolution approving the fiscal year 2027 ambulance fee schedule increases. Number two is a resolution approving liability insurance coverage with Chubb, Travelers, Arch, Allied cowbell safety national for property tort employment practices public officials law enforcement liability auto cyber workers compensation umbrella crime infidelity excess liability insurance and third-party administrator services in the amount of two thousand or two million four hundred sixty one thousand seven hundred forty nine dollars and Authorizing the city clerk to execute said necessary documents and number three is a resolution approving School resource officer agreement with the Wailoo Community School District to provide six school resource officers in the schools in the amount of four hundred and six thousand two hundred ninety three dollars for fiscal year 2027 four hundred and twenty six thousand six hundred eight dollars for fiscal year 2028 four hundred forty seven thousand nine hundred thirty eight dollars for fiscal year twenty nine and and $470,335 for fiscal year 2030, including funding for officer training and authorizing the mayor and city clerk to execute said document. Second.

Motion second. Would anybody from the audience wish to speak to items one, two, or three? Please approach the podium and state your name and address. Seeing none, council questions.

Mr. Mayor.

Ms. Salamanca.

On number three, resolution number three, just so folks in the audience understand and folks at home, Chief, would you mind speaking to this issue with this resolution?

Yeah, sure. So we've had school resource officers. I'm sorry, Rob Duncan, Chief of Police. We've had school resource officers in the school for a long time. This is just an updated contract that we do every couple of years. The current one is expired June 30th.

And I know I've been asked from folks in my ward regarding the funding for this. The funding is coming from the school district, not from the city, correct? That's correct. Thank you.

Any other questions on one, two, and three?

Mr. Mayor? Mr. Simon. Number one, the ambulance fee schedule increases. Just so there's no discussion on the amount of the increase, does insurance cover the ambulance fee for most people? And when was the last time we raised the ambulance rates?

Fire Marshal Williver, right up your alley.

Brock Williver, Waterloo Fire Rescue. I don't have that information for you. That's on the other side of the house.

And I do think they update, I think the fees come annually to council for an update.

I believe so. Our medical supervisor should have that information for you. Is he here tonight? He's not, and we can get that for you.

Okay, if that's the case, can we table this for two weeks and get that information?

Or would that cause a big problem? Again, I don't deal with that.

Mr. Mayor, I'd like to make a motion to table this resolution. For two weeks? For two weeks.

Second. Second. Got a motion a 2nd discussion on tabling number 1. Roll call vote on number 1, please. On the tabling tabling number 1.

Okay. Mr. Schmidt. Yes. Mr. Mario. Yes. Ms. Barry. Yes. Mr. Salamanca. Yes. Mr. Simon.

Yes. This council have any questions on 2 or 3 besides the ones that were already asked. Hearing none roll call vote on 2 and 3 please.

Mr. Schmidt? Yes. Mr. Morrow? Yes. Ms. Berry? Yes. Mr. Salamanca? Yes. And Mr. Simon?

Yes. Someone like to take four, five, and six, please.

Mr. Mayor.

Mr. Salamanca.

Number four, resolution approving a professional service agreement with Main Street Waterloo in the amount of $66,000 for fiscal year 2027 and authorizing the mayor and city clerk to execute said document. Number five, resolution accepting and approving an acquisition contract and approving a deed to convey real property to the City of Waterloo for partial property acquisition and temporary easement agreement with D&C Management. in the amount of $18,000 for property located at 2133-2159 Fairway Lane in conjunction with the Fairway Lane reconstruction project and authorizing the mayor and city clerk to execute said document. And number six, resolution approving a project funding agreement in an amount not to exceed $1,770 with Roger Resick for replacement fencing at 714 West 2nd Street and authorizing the mayor and city clerk to execute said document.

Second. Second.

Does anyone from the audience wish to speak to any of these items, four, five, and six? Step to the podium, state your name and address, and you'll have three minutes.

Forrest Dilibu, 1725 Huntington Road. Number six, are we paying for the fence? And if so, why?

Mr. Anderson.

No landerson community planning development director as a part of the demolition of the property next to it, which we have a development agreement with habitat to build a new home on for the layout of a new house. They wanted the fence removed the fence on the property that we had sixty seven eight was connected to this other fence for a portion of it underground. So, when they started to remove. Our fence, portions of this fence came out. In looking at it, we were probably going to have the same issue along the entire fence line, so we removed both fences. The property owner would like a new fence back. We had him get two quotes, and we are agreeing to pay for a fence to go back on his property.

Does that answer your question, sir? It does. Thank you.

It doesn't make me happy, though.

I'm sure it doesn't. Council, any questions on 4, 5, and 6?

Mr. Mayor.

Mr. Marrow.

Number 4, uh, I guess I've had some various discussions with existing downtown businesses, and I'd like to have somebody from Main Street if they're here, give me an idea of what they might be thinking about or doing for existing businesses. I've been around for a while.

Well, I see our Main Street Waterloo person is here. It's Jessica.

Good evening, Jessica Rucker, Main Street, Waterloo. I guess I'm not really sure what you're asking. We offer support to all of our businesses, new and existing, whether that's through technical services, helping market that they're down here, hosting events to drive foot traffic into the businesses. Also, if they're interested in having a ribbon cutting to celebrate an anniversary, we can work with them to do that as well.

This specific business was going to be a long time anniversary, and he just made a statement, and I was curious if there was anything going on with established businesses.

Yeah, they just have to stay in communication with us, and we would love to celebrate and host a ribbon cutting for a one-year, 10-year, 75, 100-year anniversary. Good. Thank you. Okay.

Any other questions from council? Okay. Roll call vote on four, five, and six, please.

Mr. Schmidt? Yes. Mr. Morrow?

Yes.

Ms. Berry? Yes. Mr. Salamanca?

Yes.

Mr. Simon?

Yes. So that one takes seven, eight, and nine.

Mr. Mayor?

Mr. Morrow?

Yep. Number seven, resolution approving a contract for services with the Iowa Northland Regional Council of Governments for the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant to install two electric charging stations near Lafayette Street and Park Avenue. in an amount not to exceed fifteen thousand dollars and authorizing the mayor and city clerk to execute said document number eight resolution approving the request by dog dog waterloo two four two one four two oh two four llc to dedicate right of way near four oh four eight oh three sergeant road for the extension of charm drive and authorizing the mayor city clerk to execute said documents number nine Resolution approving a temporary easement agreement in the amount of 100 dollars with Kevin green located at 2219 downing Avenue in conjunction with the road coming and road reconstruction project and authorizing the mayor and city clerk to execute said document.

So, good, we have a motion in a 2nd, anyone from the audience wish to speak to 7, 8 or 9 please. Seeing none, council, any questions on seven, eight, or nine?

Mr. Mayor? Yeah, Mr. Simon. Number seven, Noel, can you explain where are these going and is it two or how many charging stations are we creating with this? It says two, correct? Okay. My question is, how did we decide we were going to get, is there a need in this area for charging stations or?

Noel Anderson, Community Planning and Development Director. Going a couple years back, the federal government offered up this grant funds for the ability to put in charging stations. It was determined at that time to apply to see if we could put in some charging stations. It's near the intersection of Lafayette and Park Avenue is where they'd be located, probably underneath the overpass of the Park Avenue ramp. Um, with the plans for the blacks building being changed into a hotel, we're also looking at the possibility of if we could put the charging stations inside the ramp, if that would still work as well. So we'll check on that. But the city of Waterloo ultimately received a 129,180 dollar grant for 2 charging stations. We have the costs in the overall grant. Set up for the 2 charging stations. That's about 76,000 dollars. About 30,000 dollars in electrical hookups there and then some improvements by mid America at about 2022,000 to get. The power to the site, so just moving ahead with the project intercard will help us with a lot of the federal requirements for Davis bacon and all the documentation to get done through the grant process.

And so this is paid for by a grant. This is not something we're taking out of the general fund.

That is correct. If there was, for some reason, higher than we estimated estimates, we think we're pretty safe, having talked to the local contractors and Mid-America, but we would match it with downtown TIF funds.

So what's the $15,000 for?

That's for them to administer the grant. So since this is federal money, there's a lot of steps to go through for the environmental, for the Davis-Bacon requirements for reporting wages and all that.

So we're just paying for somebody to fill the grant out for us?

Correct. Administer the grant is a better word. Okay.

Very good. Thank you.

Council, any other questions? All right. Seeing none, Madam Clerk, 7, 8, and 9.

Mr. Schmidt? Yes. Mr. Morrow? Yes. Ms. Berry? Yes. Mr. Salamanca? Yes. And Mr. Simon?

Um, yes, who would like to take take 1011 and 12 please?

Mr. Mayor, Ms. Barry, a resolution approving an amendment to a temporary assess excess easement. Agreement with McDonald's USA, LLC, located at adjacent to 2222 Logan Avenue. and authorizing the mayor and city clerk to execute said document number 11 is a resolution accepting faa aip grant number three dash one nine dash zero zero nine four dash zero six one dash twenty twenty six in the amount of one hundred and twelve thousand one hundred dollars for replace upgrade airport lighting control monitoring system Project and authorizing the mayor and city attorney to execute said document and number 12 is a resolution approving a portable temporary traffic signal 28 E agreement with Blackhawk county and in conjunction with the terms of an awarded traffic safety improvement program grant for shared usage of a of a set of temporary traffic signals and authorizing the mayor and city clerk.

To execute said document 2nd, and a motion and a 2nd, anyone from the audience was to speak to items 10 and 11 and 12 please. So, please approach the podium. Seeing none counsel any questions on 10, 11 and 12.

Mr mayor for number for number 10, I believe is this Knowles department. Yep. Noel, could you talk a little bit about this resolution and where it's at in relation to the McDonald's conversation? I know that was a topic a couple months ago.

Noel Anderson, Community Planning Development Director. So this is for the McDonald's up at North Crossing, just a little ways north of Donald along 63. There used to be a frontage road in there. That frontage road was removed as part of the whole redevelopment of the former Logan Plaza area. So we've been working with McDonald's to basically kind of change. We vacated some of that frontage road, conveyed that to them. We had some land from them to us for the new Heath Street extension. And it's just been taking a little bit while because some of it was also State of Iowa Department of Transportation right away as well. The State of Iowa must go through a state code section called 306.23 where they have to go back and research the records and offer it back to the original owners and go through that process. So that's just slowed it down. So this amendment is basically going from the deadline being July 31st to December 31st of this year to allow for that process to happen.

Thank you.

Any other questions for 10, 11, and 12? Seeing none, roll call vote, please.

Mr. Schmidt? Yes. Mr. Mauro? Yes. Ms. Berry? Yes. Mr. Salamanca? Yes. And Mr. Simon?

Yes. Perfect. Would someone take 13 for us, please? Mr. Mayor.

Mr. Simon. I'd like to make a motion to approve the resolution approving a cooperative services agreement with USDA Wildlife Services to minimize wildlife-related property damage and risk to human health and safety, and authorizing the mayor to execute said document.

Second.

Got a motion and a second. Would anybody from the audience wish to speak to item number 13?

Mr. Dryer, 3145 West 4th Street. I guess I would like a little more explanation on what this means. Are they going to start killing animals? Are they going to put cannons around town? I remember several years ago, Cedar Rapids hired an outfit out of the East Coast that used, I think, high-powered rifles to call the deer in town. So what's the extent of what they're going to try to do and What safety are the citizens going to not see or see?

I believe this is Crow's, but we have a representative from the Leisure Services here to speak to just this item.

Travis Nichols, Park Superintendent, Leisure Services. They do a bunch of different things. There's no actual high-powered rifles or nothing like that. They use propane cannons, lasers, trapping, electrical scare devices, pyrotechnics, cannon netting, and pellet rifles.

Okay, so there will be some noise.

This is to eradicate crows. From the downtown area.

You don't like crows?

I don't like what they leave behind. Any other questions on item number 13 while we have? Thank you, sir. Roll call vote on number 13, please. Do we have a discussion? Oh, I asked if anybody had any questions. Oh, I thought you had a question. I did counsel questions besides that.

Yes, I do have a question, sir. Mr. Nichols, if you may. The company that we hire, where are they out of? Four.

They're actually basically the United States Department of Agriculture. They come in from out of state. So it's a federally? It's a federally funded, or not federally funded, but federal operation as part of the wildlife.

Very interesting. Thank you. Appreciate it.

Thank you, sir. And I welcome anybody to look at the attachment pictures if you wonder what kind of damage that those crows caused to our parks and our neighborhoods. Any other questions from council on item 13? Roll call vote, please.

Mr. Schmidt?

Yes.

Mr. Mauro? Yes. Ms. Berry? Yes. Mr. Salamanca? Yes. And Mr. Simon?

Yes. Ordinance number one, please. Mr. Salamanca. Would you like my copy?

I'm going off the internet version. So an ordinance amending Waterloo City Code section 5-2-9, public urination.

Motion to?

Motion to.

Receive file.

Receive and file.

Maybe I wouldn't take it.

there you go all right motion to receive file considering pass for the first time an ordinance amending the city of warlock code of ordinances by repealing section 9 public urination of chapter 2 general offenses title 5 police regulations and enacting in lieu thereof of a new section 9 public urination of chapter 2 general offenses title 5 police regulations can i get a second second motion a second anyone from the audience wish to speak to the change in this ordinance

Thank you. Anyone from the council wish to speak? Again, thank you. Roll call vote, please.

Mr. Schmidt?

Yes.

Mr. Mauro?

Yes.

Ms. Berry? Yes. Mr. Salamanca? Yes. Mr. Samet?

Yes.

Mr. Mayor, motion to suspend the rules.

Second.

Roll call vote, please.

All right, Mr. Schmidt? Yes. Mr. Mauro? Yes. Ms. Berry? Yes. Mr. Salamanca?

Yes. Mr. Martin, sorry.

I was reading. Mr. Simon? Yes.

Mr. Salamanca?

A motion to consider and pass for the second and third time and adopt said ordinance.

Second. Oh, I'm sorry. We can't pass it for this.

For the suspension.

For the suspension because we got two people missing and that would count as no votes. My apologies. We will bring this back again. I can't wait. Can't wait to see the article in the Courier. It is now time for public comments. Ask the public to come up and state your name and address. You have three minutes on any non-agenda related item. You are allowed to speak to one item only. Please approach the podium.

221 Gilbert Street. My name is Blake Smith. I am not under the belief that this council is inherently against the interests of the people. I, however, do believe that good intentions do not always lead to good outcomes. And so it is my request that you please contemplate pertaining what it is that I'm going to say. Support for the data center may be grounded in desire for increased tax revenue for the city and its development. However, it should be asked, what are the costs and what is at stake? Data centers are popping up like weeds across the state and the country. The Environmental and Energy Study Institute has said complaints often focus not on the volume, but on consistent nonstop noise. Imagine getting off of work after a long day just to sit down in your chair and hear a nonstop humming that does not cease, not during television, dinner, nor the night. That sounds awful. Such continuous noise can lead to anxiety and increase in blood pressure. Classaction.org also noted further reported health effects headaches, vertigo, nausea, sleep disturbances, ear pain, and hypertension. If they tap into our water aquifer, we risk not only the draining of an important water source and higher water bills, but also the accidental contamination of drinking water. We do not want to drink or shower in water contaminated with chemicals, and parents do not want to worry about what their water may do to their children. i support economic growth and an increase in available money for the maintenance and development of this city i support a decrease in taxation as well however people do not want a data center to be the avenue taken for these things it would be wise to consider how the attraction of waterloo for new businesses may be impacted negatively i urge you to adhere to the will of the people, please, not only those who have taken time out of their lives to protest here today, but also those who are unable to come here. I urge you to remember the people working for, providing for, and taking care of their families, hardworking Americans, not just those of Waterloo in the general sense, but those people who live around where this data center would be put. I request on behalf of the people of Waterloo a moratorium halting any and all present and future data center projects. In addition to this, I ask that proper research be done and that regulations be put into law protecting people from unsafe data center projects and companies ultimately acting against the interests of the people. Thank you for your time.

Thank you, sir.

Good evening again Jessica rocker main street waterloo I just wanted to take a moment to thank all of the different city departments and staff that volunteered and helped bring together an amazing fourth of July weekend. In downtown waterloo between the fireworks and the field of honor it was a ton of work to make both of those those things happen and we're great for the Community and I just wanted to thank you guys, thank you.

My name is Rebecca Schock. I live at 821 Bishop Avenue in the Maywood addition. I'm here today to ask for more help with the speeding on Bishop Avenue. I've left messages with several different departments. Sophia Waterloo public works Greg fangman of the police department the engineering department I've left messages my ward for council person is Dr.. Smith, and I'm sorry she's not here to help me And I have left three messages for the police chief with an offer to come and visit with you or to have you come out to understand What's going on? Maywood has no curbs, no gutters, no sidewalks. We have children and adults that do walk. Like, everybody else has other neighborhoods and, um. Something's going to happen at some point. I came before the council, uh. In 2022. And I was successful. I had petitions from all of us on Bishop Avenue. And we were successful in getting two speed bumps in the 300 and the 700 blocks of Bishop Avenue, which have helped. However, they get past that speed bump, and it's like the Indy 500. It doesn't matter. Cars, motorcycles, trucks, anything. I don't know what to ask for. I know there's been sporadic police departments out there trying to monitor, and they say, oh, there's not that many people driving over 30. You don't understand. You need to be there all the time. I'm wondering if there's the option of putting one of those digital speed readers with consequences. I mean, photo enforced, I don't know if you do photos anymore. I don't know if that's allowed or if that went away. We need some help. These people just don't, 25, 30 degree or mile per hour signs mean nothing, mean nothing. They just, they race down, it's morning, they're coming from wherever their business is at the end of Bishop Avenue, which is with Independence, and the speeding, we're kind of at crossways. You know, Bishop Avenue between independence and all the businesses out there, and then they come through Bishop take go sage road and then they're on Dubuque road to go wherever they have to go. And so. We just need some help something's going to happen. There's too many speeders need some proactive. Ideally, two more speed humps would be nice if we could have those positioned to slow down people because when people are speeding and I'm outside working and I hear that they're not slowing down and the next thing you know, their vehicles are bouncing around. We've had somebody that hit the water pump and

Thank you, ma'am. Okay. Your concerns have not gone unnoticed. The police chief's here, Randy Bennett from Public Works, and he's in charge of the traffic division. They'll have your concerns.

Please help us. Please. We've got too many people and children.

Okay. Thank you, ma'am.

Okay.

Appreciate it. Anyone else wish to speak to any non-agenda related item?

Renee Carson, 1108 Vine. My concern is the same as the lady that spoke before me. I guess they said we had a study about the traffic in our area where I live in Highland, but there needs to be some stop signs, some speed bumps or something. You know, you can go out there and look. Because people are just being through there we need stop signs on Glenwood because when you come up you coming up stealing and this Glenwood they don't stop on Glenwood they turn that corner and you meet them here though or else you end up getting T bone and this car is parked on the other side so you have no place to go. So something needs to be done before somebody's kid get killed before somebody's house get ran into And now, you know, because when they said that they did the study and we hadn't had any accidents, we need to prevent them from having accidents because something's going to happen. And I don't want anybody's kid to get... hit. I don't want to be here. I don't want to be t bone to anything else because it's dangerous because they do not stop at that corner on Glenwood and they come and you're meeting them head on and you can't is no place to go because there's cars parked on the other side of the street. So please do something about this before somebody gets killed. We shouldn't have to wait till somebody gets killed or hurt to make this a preventive thing for us out here.

Thank you, ma'am. Thank you.

Beverly Cosby, 315 Wendell Court. It's ironic that the two ladies came up were talking about traffic issues. Because I was going to wait, not say, I was going to say something, but I didn't know when. But however, over there on 11th Street, the, what is it, the thing that goes around? The roundabout. That is a danger zone. Friday, especially on the weekends.

Are you talking about Hammond?

No, no, I'm talking about when you come off 11th Street, going up to,

Ninth Street, I'm sorry, Ninth Street.

That, whatever you call it, is a danger zone.

People do not listen or they don't even look at the yield signs. They just go, they barrel right on through. There's been several times that I myself have come through there and people have just barreled through there, going any way they're, whatever way they're going, and they don't pay attention to the signage. Would it be better if there had been stop signs instead of yield signs? Because people don't seem to understand what a yield sign is. Like I said, Friday, I know for a fact, Friday there was almost two accidents. People just barreled through there. So I'm asking, is it better for a stop sign to be there? At least two, because you've got four yield signs there. So maybe if you put a stop sign on either other side, that might help the situation. But there needs to be something done over there also, because there's going to be a serious accident over there.

Thank you, ma'am.

Good evening, Mayor and members of the City Council. My name is Carol Chayden, 147 Summit Avenue, Ward 1. I'm here tonight to voice my strong opposition to the city's current development agreement with Wahawk Power LLC for the South Waterloo Business Park. While I support intentional economic growth for our city, the terms of this specific deal represent a severe net negative for Waterloo taxpayers. First, the financial math does not add up. In other words, the math ain't mathin'. First, the city sold 12 acres of publicly owned industrial land to a private corporation for exactly one dollar. Worse, the agreement grants an option for them to take another 12 acres for another single dollar within five years, completely bypassing future public votes or community oversight. Combined with a 10-year 50% tax abatement and millions of state-funded utility infrastructure grants, we are heavily subsidizing a private facility that only guarantees 10 to 30 permanent jobs. A minimum assessed value of six million for an 80,000 square foot tech facility seems to be a very low industrial standard as well. Second, the strain on our natural resources is a major concern. data centers consume millions of gallons of water daily while the site plans highlight a water treatment area the public has not been provided with a comprehensive local water impact or aquifer depletion study furthermore we have no guarantees regarding noise mitigation or wastewater safety written into that text of this agreement. We do not have to accept bad deals. Other Iowa communities are successfully protecting themselves. Waterloo deserves that exact same safeguard. I urge this council to listen to the growing number of concerned citizens. Please pause all upcoming site plan approvals, institute a temporary moratorium on data center construction and mandate a full environmental and resource impact study. Let's renegotiate an agreement that actually values Waterloo's land, water and taxpayers. Thank you for your time and service to this community.

Thank you.

Good evening, my name is Carolyn Harbaugh-Belfie, 5036 Zanesboro Avenue. I live from where this is supposed to take place on a five generation farm. And of course, it's alarming that it's been so fast and secretive. And I think what I would like to see is that you hold a time with as many people as we can get together to answer our questions because when we've asked what company is this who is this you go we don't know well how many are they going to build well we don't know we know about one so we need to know that we have many many questions and you know iowa has a cancer issue and then to take on an in this light industrial area that something that is going to i mean we know it's proven we can look at the facts we i can get those to you if you need about air the water and of course electric bills going up also in most areas that already have these so my concern is we don't want to make people sicker and have more sick people and have prices go up that's not going to draw anyone to waterloo and as far as making tech jobs so far the research is showing it is not bringing tech jobs into areas that have them so you're you're you're really getting a very bad deal in this with the amount of money that has been spent and what you get back with a lot of pollution that has to be taken care of by the city. So I think we need a lot of questions answered. We need strict regulations. We need a lot of independent research and a moratorium on doing another deal like this. So please stop it if you can. I don't know, is it too late? this is one of the questions we have have you signed something with this company this secret company that you cannot dissolve so we need to know this because other places are dissolving them so um we want you to stop it we want a moratorium and we want it stopped i don't think you'd find anyone that wants to live near them It would hurt your nicest areas, even your golf club area, golf course area, Audubon, the new senior center. It's not just farmers or farmland out there. You really have more and more people living there that are going to be affected by this, and their health will be too. Thank you.

Thank you.

Good evening. I'm Darlington T. Devat. I'm from 128 Speaker Road, Waterloo, Iowa. I have a one concern for most especially for the immigrant and African community concerning the park. Like, a couple of years ago, we used to use all the park here to have our baby shower and all the party and other stuff. But now, most of the park, we have been stopped to use the park because we don't sit there like a funeral. We always play music, and they don't want us to play music anymore to the park. So that means we cannot have fun in the African community anymore. And that's a big concern in the African community. And everybody I've seen, we never used to live this way. Why are we living this way now? Because we used to take our speaker, play any kind of music we want to play after 8 o'clock, 8.30, and we leave the paper. Now, we cannot do that no more. So that's a big concern for the immigrant community. Thank you so much.

Thank you.

Hello, my name is Laura Benson and I actually grew up in Waterloo and I now live in Evansdale. So I do understand that you guys don't have to listen to me in any way. And I appreciate that. But there are a few things about this data center.

I want to bring your address please. I'm sorry your address in Evansdale.

I don't believe I have to give that out.

Yes, you do. If you want to speak, you have to give your name and address.

Okay. Is that just a policy here?

It is ma'am.

Okay, they don't require that at the other council meetings.

Yeah, we do.

Okay, Michigan Drive in Evansdale.

Is there a number or is it just all of Michigan Drive?

It's all of Michigan Drive.

Let's go with a number.

Okay, 1674 Michigan Drive.

Thank you, ma'am.

One of the options that you guys have that I want to bring to your attention is that there is a law that's in place in many shopping district communities with historical backgrounds called a formula business plan. And what that does is it limits the amount of a business of the same nature in a certain area. So if you're going to move forward with this data center plan, that is one option you can use to limit how many data centers can go into that area. thing that I'd like to bring up in regards to the whole data center is that you guys are making decisions that affect the surrounding communities too. And frankly, it's kind of rude that nobody's been asked and there hasn't been any kind of inquiries from the surrounding areas, specifically the townships where most of our farmers with Century Farms live and the smaller communities that are no longer part of Waterloo. Um, we all share the same water source and we, um, I know in Evansdale, we like to be called the city of good neighbors. So, you know, if we have to. Do things in a certain way that changes because of this data center, there's going to be some hard feelings about that. And I think those issues need to be addressed and discussed, not just with communities like Evansdale, but also, you know, the townships, the farmers. and the surrounding counties, including Grundy and Buchanan and these other areas. And that's my main spiel today, is this isn't just a Waterloo decision, and you guys need to include the other people that are gonna be affected by it. So I thank you for your time.

Thank you.

Good evening. Chris Schmitz, 800 West 4th Street in Waterloo. And I'm not here to talk about data centers. No shade on anybody that is. I want to come remind you guys to do a little invite for the comic book convention that I have coming up and let you guys know just thinking about all the data center type stuff. I read a book a little while back. It was by the guy who He was on, I think, the team that formed the Main Street as an organization. It's called Revitalize or Die. And the book was all about finding pride in your neighborhood, like finding reason, like why do people come to your community? Like what's the thing that makes people go, I want to live there? And that actually was what made us want to do this, something fun, something that shows the rest of the state The Waterloo is a great place to live, work and play. And I think that that book. Might might be like, that might kind of be topical with the data center. With area business with downtown, and if any of you guys want to read it, I will buy you a copy. It was just it was that impactful to me that maybe you want to do something so fun that that I think everybody can find something here to come together. So something that's not divisive, but that is. inclusive, that's a draw from not just here, but also in the surrounding communities, surrounding states even. Like we have Hollywood celebrities coming in, we have a lot of just very, very fun gaming, pop culture type stuff, and in doing this, I discovered that we actually have some well-known people that live right here in town. We've got people that have gone on to create characters for comic books. We've got a guy who's actually on the billboard. I just started a billboard today. If you guys are driving home, maybe you'll see it. DeAndre Smith is his name. He lives here, born and raised, not me. I'm an outsider. You all know me. I got the bed and breakfast here in town and came in because I just decided that I loved this community from outside of it. I'm going to move my whole livelihood here and do something awesome just to boost what's going on, to be a draw, to be a supporter. in all things. And I met this guy, DeAndre, and he's like, yeah, it was in like this Netflix special show. Maybe you've heard of it called Squid Game. Like a real, like one of the number one type things it was on for, you know, the 15 minutes of fame that you get on Netflix. has lived here all his life, lives here with his family. Same thing with some of these other guys that write comic books and role-playing games and all these different things that nerds love. And not just nerds, but people who are secretly nerds because all of us here Kind of like the same sorts of things. They might be TV shows or movies. Like everybody here, I bet, probably has a favorite Marvel superhero, unless you're going to tell me you're only a DC superhero kind of a person. But anyway, I just wanted to give that invite, and I think there's a lot to love about Waterloo. Appreciate it. And I hope you guys will come and check it out.

How about giving us the dates?

That's going to be July 17, 18, and 19. It is so soon that I'm going to lose my mind.

At the convention center.

At the convention center, yes.

Okay, thank you, sir.

Thank you. Have a good day. Yep.

Hi, my name is Don styles and I live at 1657 golden Valley drive, Waterloo, Iowa. So, anyway, I was here the last time talking about the data center, but I feel like relating to the data center. There's another artificial intelligence. I know we need to kind of talk about within the city limits here. Those flock cameras, the black color ones that are AI that are supposed to say, oh, it protects children. It reads license plate and all that. But if it does do that, we just need to kind of. Prove that, but otherwise us, the American people all over the place are taking those things out because it's unconstitutional. We don't live in communist China. We don't live in North Korea. We don't live in Russia and Venezuela and any of that. We are a free country, United States of America. And we want to ask you not only to ban the artificial intelligence style, flock cameras, but please take the photo enforcement cameras down. Thank you.

Thank you, sir. Anyone else wish to speak tonight?

My name's Maverick Blanchon. I live at 1103 Wellington Street, and I have an issue with the data centers. They're being built without much input from the public. And as you can see from the examples tonight, that input is negative and it impacts us as a whole city and surrounding areas negatively. It'll raise electricity rates. It'll raise water rates in a town in the city. My apologies that already has some of the highest property taxes in the state. And that makes it incredibly difficult to survive here. And I just think that selling all that land for a dollar to some of the richest people that I have never seen. I've never looked him in the eyes as I'm looking all of you in the eyes now. And to me, that just means that I don't know him and I can't trust him. And I certainly can't trust him to make it more expensive to live where I grew up. Thank you for your time.

Thank you for your comments.

Hello, Amy Jo, 810 Congress Street. I also am not happy with the data center. In addition to the reasons everyone else has mentioned, I also want to acknowledge that we have a very unhealed and struggling community. And I know that all of you are aware of that. And I also know that most of you don't care. And that's a problem, because I question why you chose the positions that you're in, because this status center reeks of corruption very, very blatantly. And I don't appreciate the attitude that we get from almost all of you whenever we express that we are uncomfortable, that this is going to harm us even more. It is going to have a net negative for us and our overall already struggling community that most of you don't care about. So I would just like to acknowledge that, that everyone sees how you treat us and those around us. I know you think it's not obvious, but we see it and we will hold you accountable to it. And I just urge you to please get back in touch with your humanity and not your own interest in financial gain. Thank you.

Thank you.

Scarlett Hauser, 2022 Kimball Avenue. I also would like to speak out in direct opposition of the data centers that will be planned for the future. I'm hoping that y'all pause it, stop it, and ask more questions. I think Waterloo has the capability of becoming a leader and sending a positive example for Iowans and for other Iowan towns. that are thinking about creating the same problem for their own communities. I think we should lead with what can they do for us if we are absolutely gonna put them in. I believe that there was some sort of agreement that was created in December of 2025 last year, and I feel since then this has been going on very quickly with very little transparency. When something like that happens, I believe the reason is corruption. I don't believe that you guys are evil people, and I don't believe that you have any ill intent. In fact, I actually believe that a lot of you would probably like to see the community prosper, and I don't believe that a data center is the answer. I think you guys need to ask, what is Waterloo going to get out of this? What can we get out of this? How can we benefit and contribute positively to our community, which I think we all actually really want to do. We all live here, we all care about this place. And Iowa is already a huge state with cancer ratings. I think we're like number one. And I think that's something really important to consider when the data centers actually create large pollution to the environment, especially on the south side of town. That is such a gorgeous side of town. The Arboretum is over there. There's mass fields. I'm sure most of you have grown up here. I didn't even grow up here and I love it. I love the nature and I love the way it's been preserved. from here to cedar falls and i think it's really important to ask more questions and be as transparent as public with the as possible transparent as possible with the public if you want anybody to be on your side but as of right now all everything is negative and nobody's going to want that here nobody wants our city our town to be trashed for what for corporate gain ask yourself what side of history you want to be on thank you thank you

here in Stacy Roberts, 411 Ullman Street. I'm going to ask some questions and I want you to answer them after I'm done.

We're not required to answer questions during public comments, sir. That's good.

But people are going to ask the questions. They can ask. My concern is not a data center. It's very far more important than a data center and it's very important for the immigrants as well as the rest of the people that live here in Waterloo, Iowa, especially the descendants of former slaves. My question that I have for you is what is your vision for the human rights office? You don't have to answer it, but people want to know. Okay. Do you have plans to hire anyone to replace the two people that are gone? People want to know. You're not going to answer it. What will be done with the money that was allocated for 2026 and the money that you have for the human rights office when you have one person over there working now? And I looked at the average income for what she's doing and her income is 12% lower, but yet she's doing three people's job right now. And it looks to me from what is going on, you plan on closing it. And that's not good. That's not good for you because at that point, if I have a concern, like, I do, should I come talk to you or Lance? Who should I come talk to? You don't have to answer it next week. Miss Johnson is going to be on a very well deserved vacation. If there's a problem in Waterloo, who should they call? I would suggest you because there's no 1 in the office. Now you've got $352,251 for 2026. You got $371,543.86 for this fiscal year. And I understand that covers salaries, IPERS, people with longevity. like I looked up Miss Johnson, 28 and a half years and 12% under what a person should be getting and doing three people's jobs. It's like you're trying to force a person out of a job and that ain't good for us. That's not good for the city of Waterloo because what you got is like 58 people that had complaints last year. Where should they go next year or the year after when you close the Human Rights Office? You got plenty of money. My biggest thing is where is the money going that you're saving now? My next meeting is going to be on title 18 USC 241 and 242. I would suggest that you have your city attorney make you aware of what that is. Have a good weekend.

Anyone else like to speak in the public comment section tonight? Mr. Simon.

Mr. Mayor, I would like to close public comments and make a motion to close the public comments as well as receive file the comments to the public record.

Second.

Motion second. All in favor? Aye. Opposed? Same sign. Council, any comments from the

mr. mayor mr. Simon as a comic book collector I'm absolutely pumped for that thing next week that's gonna be awesome about the data centers I just want to tell you guys I know we had one person that said that they don't think any of us up here care I for one care I'm sure everybody up here cares we are doing a lot of work that you guys don't know we have discussions and We're looking at all the options. And some of the questions I've gotten answered, like the water consumption, we've talked to the professionals. Electric usage, we talked to the professionals. The noise, the noise is a big one for me. I'm doing a lot of research on that. There's an ISO 9613-2 international standard that predicts how sound travels. So I've been doing research on that. So I want you guys to know that we are doing our due diligence on it. Now, if we have to have more time, I'm sure the people at this stage or this dais will do that if they have not gotten the answers that they want. So I do want to let everybody know that we are doing the work. A lot of things depend on what type of data center there is. There are a multitude of different data centers out there. They're not all lumped into one. group there's smaller ones there's bigger ones there's there's icloud storage there's chat gbt uh generators there's a number of them um no the crypto the cryptocurrency ones are from what i hear um louder You know, what kind of motors, if they have brush motors in there. You know, we're doing the work. We're looking at the DBCs, the DCBs, that's the low frequency, the normal sound. We're not, we don't care. It's not that we don't care, we're doing the work. So, I appreciate all the comments tonight and all the questions I've gotten from my friends, family, and citizens of Waterloo. So I just wanted to make that known that we do care up here. So thank you for your time. Mr. Mauro.

Mr. Mayor, and I also, my ward meeting that I had, I guess it was two weeks ago, I tried to bring in a fellow that had managed a data center. Again, we're trying to learn. We're trying to share information. We're trying to make the right decisions. And I guess I want to assure everybody that we are listening and we are trying to educate ourselves and anybody that wants to attend the meetings to make intelligent decisions.

Mr. Mayor. Mr. Mayor. Ms. Berry. And on that note, as Councilman Morrill said, we are, we care. We do care, as well as Councilman Simon said. I'm wondering, you've mentioned, Mr. Mayor, that this will have to go before Planning and Zoning Committee before it even comes to us, correct?

That's correct, ma'am.

And do you know when that meeting will take place? Because I would also encourage people to visit that meeting as well.

It's not been set yet.

It has not been set yet.

Best case scenario, August or September.

Okay.

And it'll be on the City of Waterloo's website.

Okay, so I want to encourage all those folks concerned, as we all are, but as it's been said, we are trying to gather information because that would, that actually, back in December, I don't think, there's only a couple folks that were here on the council back then to make that vote, so we're all learning. And secondly, regarding the Human Rights Commission, because I've been getting a lot of calls on that. And I know I talked to you directly, Mr. Mayor, and you pointed out to me that you have no desire to get rid of the Human Rights Commission. Is that correct?

That's correct.

That is correct. So I'm wondering also if there's a lot of misinformation out there about what this city intends to do with that. So I would just, again, people talk to us. You know, I know how important the Department of Human Rights is in this community, and we must have it. And as you've heard from the mayor, we will have it, okay? Now, the other part to that, Mr. Mayor, is will we fill those positions?

Which positions?

The position of director and having a secretary.

We're still working on that.

Okay, so you've heard Mr. Mayor said we are still working on that. So I just ask that let's be patient and wait for the process, if you all would. Thank you, Mr. Mayor.

Mr. Salamanca, you look like you have something on your mind.

I do, Mr. Mayor. First off, I want to say kudos to Center for the Arts, Main Street, Waterloo, for the wonderful soccer-themed event we had last week. I greatly enjoyed myself. I met several folks that greatly enjoyed themselves as well. If you weren't out there, it was a true... testament to the spirit of Waterloo and the inclusivity of Waterloo in regards to how our Bosnian immigrant community, along with our folks that have long-term residents of Waterloo, came together and watched what I thought was a wonderful game of soccer. I had a lot of fun. So again, kudos to you. Kudos to the Center of the Arts. The second thing I want to talk about is, since it's a topic and it's been a topic, I just want to reinforce the notion that there is a process for everything. As much as I may not like it, as much as you may not like it, there is still a process and that process is established and it's there for a reason. Again, I go out of my way to talk to people whether in person, on social media, over email, phone call, et cetera. If there is one thing you can say is that I will reach out to you and we will have a conversation. Now, part of that I want to make absolutely clear that there is a difference between having a conversation as adults versus someone screaming, yelling, being vulgar and being disrespectful. That is something that I will not stand for. Now, when it comes to my ward meetings, we will return to having ward meetings in August. If you have questions about the data center, email me, expect to sit down with me, and let's have a conversation. I emphasize this heavily. I believe that as citizens of Waterloo, you can sit down with me and we can have a conversation where nobody is screaming, nobody is yelling, and we sit down and talk. If we can't do that, then we cannot operate as a society. So again, I appreciate everyone coming here, I appreciate hearing your concerns, and I take them to heart. But if you're going to be disrespectful, or if you're going to be name-calling, or if you're going to try to get under my skin, I wish you the best of luck, because that is not the point of this process. I'm here to listen to you, I'm here to have conversations, and I'm here to champion your causes along with the causes of Ward 5 residents. But again, there has to be an order and a process to this. All of us ran for a position. All of us understand the position that we hold. And I can tell you, I understand what my role and my job is as a city councilman. For the populace, I ask that if you want to have conversations, I say this every time I speak, reach out to me, email me, call me. And for those of you who are chattering on the social medias, know that that stuff comes back to bite you. So if you're spreading misinformation or if you're spreading vulgar words or you're attacking folks, There is a such thing as a golden rule that I believe in. So with that being said, Mr. Mayor, I make a motion to... Oh, we're not done.

After you, Mayor. Anyone else have anything to say? And as Mr. Salamanca brought up on the soccer game, a little background on that. I had a gentleman email me on a Sunday night, and he said, wouldn't it be great if we could broadcast the soccer game, USA-Bosnia game, live at the amphitheater? Monday morning, I contacted Sean Page from the Culture and Arts Center, And he said, let me look into it and said, and then by 2 o'clock in the afternoon, he said, we can make this happen. We had a 17 foot LCD screen there to show it. Sean worked closely with Jessica and Main Street Waterloo to make it happen. We had a number of volunteers that participated in it and it was an incredible event. I also want to echo what Jessica Rucker said earlier. I want to. Truly thank the Exchange Club and the American Federation for Independent Living and all of the countless volunteers that put that flag demonstration and presentation over at the Veterans Memorial Hall and the Vietnam's Veterans 1,776 flags were there. And if you missed it, you truly missed a site because it was a beautiful site to see. If you weren't patriotic before, just walking through that made you a patriotic person. And then, uh, on July 3rd, I can't thank, uh, Sean and his staff, the culture and arts center. I can't thank Jessica and her staff from main street, Waterloo, all the city staff that participated in the countless volunteers that, that made the red, white and blue fireworks such a success. There was just a ton of people there. And, uh, I'VE HEARD GREAT COMMENTS ABOUT THE FIREWORKS, AND I CAN'T THANK EVERYONE FOR THEIR PARTICIPATION AND THEIR WILLINGNESS TO CONTRIBUTE, ESPECIALLY OUR VOLUNTEERS WITH THAT. MR. SALAMANCA, DID YOU HAVE SOMETHING?

MR. MAYOR, CAN I JUST ADD ONE MORE THING? NO.

NO, GO AHEAD.

GO AHEAD. YOU KNOW, AND I'M GLAD YOU BROUGHT UP THE SOCCER, BECAUSE JUNE 10TH, WE HAVE OUR LIBERIAN SOCCER TEAM, AND I THINK I MENTIONED IT TO YOU, MR. MAYOR. fabulous and they played in the rain so this is how dedicated these guys are and i know darlington is back there one of our commissioners um but yeah they they played in the rain and i just want to make sure and i i heard your your concern about the parks and the loud music and mr mayor maybe is there some way we can look into um who you spoke to and um because that's Where they practice their games too, and it can be looked into.

Okay. Also, if you have any time, you have amplified sound, you have to have a noise ordinance. Yeah. Application submitted to play music.

Okay. So we want to make sure that they have that.

We're not this isn't a dialogue back and forth. I just wanted to point that out. Yeah. Okay.

Thank you.

Okay.

Mr. mayor, I'd like to make a motion to adjourn.

Second. Motion to adjourn. Moved and second. All in favor? Aye. Opposed? Same sign.